[Bug 70026] RewriteRule documentation outdated and wrong about AllowOverride (“the rewrite engine cannot be used in .htaccess files in that directory”)

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https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70026

Rich Bowen <rb...@apache.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Rich Bowen <rb...@apache.org> ---
As with the other issue today, the goal in these documents is to promote best
practice.

It does not assume that these options will be overridden *by default* but that
some server configurations will have overridden them. And so, yes, it is
frequently the case, even with 2.4.

The reader *does* have a server administrator. It may be themself. It may be
someone else. It may be a Puppet script. But there is an administrator.

The configuration files may be called something else, but it is, in practice,
exceedingly rare for them to be named anything else.

In each case, suggestions better phrasing is welcome, but complicating for the
sake of the edge case seems unkind to the majority of readers. I'm skeptical
that any of these things are actually misleading or confusing in practice. But,
for sure, if you have specific rephrasings that you feel will clarify, we are
eager to hear those.

I don't see the phrase "the FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Options must
be enabled" in any of the current versions of the documents. Can you point out
where you are seeing this? (I've just rebuilt and republished all recent edits
to xml files, just in case something was out of sync with the latest versions.)

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